Posted Aug-23-2009 By

fr33thinker

Yeah... It's easy to chain hydrogen bombs together, it would be a simple matter to make a bomb twice as powerful as the Tsar Bomba. They're incredible inefficient though. Much of the energy is just lost in space.

Small tactical nukes are better.

Posted Aug-23-2009 By

ST0N3PONY

Posted Aug-23-2009 By

redwhine

See, the reason the Soviets made such powerful bombs was because their delivery systems were not as accurate as what the US had. They had to make up for their inability to precisely hit targets by having ridiculously overpowered warheads. The Tsar Bomba was absurd overkill, and the only real benefit the weapon would gave the Soviets was fear factor and propaganda material. It was thhe whole "Look! We have the biggest bomb!" dick waving maneuver.

The Soviets pulled stunts like tMore..his to hide the enormous inferiority in capability that they had for the majority of the Cold War. The reason that the Soviets positioned missiles in Cuba was because they had, literally, ZERO missiles capable of delivering nuclear bombs to important targets in the US mainland from Soviet territory while the US had hundreds capable of hitting them.Less..

Posted Aug-24-2009 By

ST0N3PONY

It was really done as a propaganda statement. The bomb was barely aircraft deliverable. They had to modify the bomber just to get the thing to fit. Even though it was parachute-retarded if they would have gone with the original 100 megaton design the plane wouldn't have been able to get out of the blast area in time. Surprisingly a rather clean detonation as weMore..ll. I'm kind of a atomic weapons buff (hence the name) and if you want to see a great doc on it pick up Trinity And Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie. There is a segment on Tsar Bomba.Less..